Oh we are in trouble. The sports teams ave been using the term "traded" in reference to hiring players for years. The term " free agent " is used also.

When a player comes into the leagues, basketball and others, they are " drafted" based, in part on how the teams finishe the previous season but also the draft spots are traded and sold though the league. Players then are put under a contract for a length of time. During this contract period teams trade players for other players and for cash and for draft slots on future years. This has been done for decades

I wouldn't be surprised thar the term "owned" might be used. Can't say that I've heard that meaning "people are owned " but I've heard it used in the context that contracts are owned. If this is to connected with slavery then there is going to be trouble all over the sports leagues

A player under contract has to abide by certain restrictions by the team owners "there's that word again." And the league also. Fines are levied for infractions. I doubt that the put the players in chains and beZt them.

Dave

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First she took her new boy friends around to the games where she knew that media cameras would catch her flaunting them . This can be tough on a guy used to being in control. Secondly, she then recorded his reaction to this in this phone conversation then had it released to media where the second volleys of the assassination occurred.

So we have a pretty good matched pair there. The gold digger and the sugar daddy.

Dave.

Actually, until the details surrounding the conversation unfolded, that was my initial feelings on the matter;

"THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER!"

It was unfortunate that in casting her net to trip up her boyfriend, she drew in so many unintended victims.

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Since you admittedly haven't been following the storyyou may not be aware that the comparison was Sterling's own...wherein he'd stated to individuals on several occasions that heviewed scouting & employing poor black players to make moneyoff their efforts/talents as being likened to a plantation owner,and viewed the hiring of white coaches likened to hiring overseers.

You also don't seem to know that this so-called PRIVATECONVERSATION was between himself and his Mixed Black/LatinaMistress... as a defense against seeing blacks as beneath him, it's already been pointed out as uncomfortably similar that to "the White Masser bedding one of his "black wenches"... which finally rose up in her throat enough to trigger her to record and leak his self-stated true feelings to the press by way of letting all and sundry (including his "boys") know his true attitudetoward them, herself, and how he viewed blacks in general.

That people find fault with her in the role of whistle blower regarding this two-faced J.O. or who wish to defend it as his "RIGHT" to be "a closet racist" speaks volumes.

That first part where he compared himself to a plantation owner is new to me. Had no idea. Thanks, can you provide links so that I can read this myself?

2nd part. Just to clarify. Are you saying that she recorded him because she was sick of his racist attitude/comments/behavior and wanted everyone to know? Because, I mean, it sounds like to me what you are saying is that this woman had no options other than to sleep with this idiot and did NOT have the option to leave before this?Just wondering because that's what it sounds like what you are saying.

And please, I hope that you are not insinuating me as defending his right to be a closet racist. You don't know me so do not insinuate that this is true.

Care to explain how, if this has been going on for so long, and Sterling has a long history of being a racist or making racist comments, how can the NAACP even THINK of contemplate of giving him not one, but 2! lifetime achievement awards? First was in 2009....

Sterling received his Lifetime Achievement Award in May of 2009, just weeks after longtime Clippers general manager Elgin Baylor sued Sterling for wrongful termination and discrimination on the basis of age and race, according to the L.A. Times. A jury ruled in favor of Sterling two years later.

At the time, Leon Jenkins, president of the Los Angeles branch of the NAACP, explained that Sterling has a “unique history” of generosity.

Via the L.A. Times:

“He has a unique history of giving to the children of L.A.,” revealing that the owner donates anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 tickets a game to youth groups for nearly every Clippers home game.Noting that the NAACP had made plans to honor Sterling before Baylor filed suit, Jenkins says, “We can’t speak to the allegations, but what we do know is that for the most part [Sterling] has been very, very kind to the minority youth community.”

Just weeks after this guy files suit? I don't know the timeline, but this year, there's at least 2 weeks before the next award ceremony. I'm betting the last time, they probably had enough time to cancel it. Wonder what changed?

Quote:

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling was scheduled to receive a second Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People at a May 15th banquet,

That may be. Strange that the NAACP has been thinking pretty well of this guy up to now .

I really don't care too much what happens to either one of them . Just concerned about how this appears to be leading to us being taken over by the culture police . We've been having a lot of this anyway

Dave

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